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92_HB5787

 
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 1        AN ACT in relation to public employee benefits.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The  Illinois  Pension  Code  is  amended  by
 5    changing Section 3-110 as follows:

 6        (40 ILCS 5/3-110) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 3-110)
 7        Sec. 3-110.  Creditable service.
 8        (a)  "Creditable  service" is the time served by a police
 9    officer as a member of a regularly constituted  police  force
10    of a municipality.  In computing creditable service furloughs
11    without  pay  exceeding 30 days shall not be counted, but all
12    leaves of absence for  illness  or  accident,  regardless  of
13    length,  and all periods of disability retirement for which a
14    police officer has received no  disability  pension  payments
15    under this Article shall be counted.
16        (a-5)  Up  to  3  years  of  time during which the police
17    officer receives a disability pension under Section  3-114.1,
18    3-114.2,  3-114.3,  or 3-114.6 shall be counted as creditable
19    service, provided that (i)  the  police  officer  returns  to
20    active  service  after  the  disability for a period at least
21    equal to the period for which credit is to be established and
22    (ii) the police officer makes contributions to the fund based
23    on the rates specified in Section 3-125.1 and the salary upon
24    which the disability pension is based.   These  contributions
25    may  be  paid  at  any  time  prior  to the commencement of a
26    retirement pension.  The police officer may,  but  need  not,
27    elect  to have the contributions deducted from the disability
28    pension or to pay them in installments on a schedule approved
29    by the board.  If not deducted from the  disability  pension,
30    the  contributions  shall  include interest at the rate of 6%
31    per year,  compounded  annually,  from  the  date  for  which
 
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 1    service  credit  is being established to the date of payment.
 2    If contributions are paid  under  this  subsection  (a-5)  in
 3    excess  of  those  needed to establish the credit, the excess
 4    shall be refunded.  This subsection (a-5) applies to  persons
 5    receiving   a   disability  pension  under  Section  3-114.1,
 6    3-114.2, 3-114.3, or 3-114.6 on the effective  date  of  this
 7    amendatory  Act  of  the  91st  General  Assembly, as well as
 8    persons who begin to receive such a disability pension  after
 9    that date.
10        (b)  Creditable  service  includes all periods of service
11    in the military, naval or air forces  of  the  United  States
12    entered   upon   while   an   active   police  officer  of  a
13    municipality, provided that upon  applying  for  a  permanent
14    pension,  and  in accordance with the rules of the board, the
15    police officer pays into the  fund  the  amount  the  officer
16    would  have  contributed  if  he  or  she  had been a regular
17    contributor during  such  period,  to  the  extent  that  the
18    municipality  which  the  police  officer served has not made
19    such contributions in the officer's behalf.  The total amount
20    of such creditable service shall not exceed 5  years,  except
21    that  any  police officer who on July 1, 1973 had more than 5
22    years of such creditable  service  shall  receive  the  total
23    amount thereof.
24        (b-1)  In  addition to any creditable service established
25    under subsection (b), creditable service may be  granted  for
26    up  to 24 months of service in the armed forces of the United
27    States that was not immediately preceded by employment  as  a
28    police  officer.   In order to receive creditable service for
29    military  service  under  this  subsection  (b-1),  a  police
30    officer must (1) apply to the Fund  in  writing  and  provide
31    evidence  of the military service that is satisfactory to the
32    Board and (2) make contributions to the Fund equal to (i) the
33    employee contributions that would have been required had  the
34    service  been  rendered  as  a  member,  plus  (ii) an amount
 
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 1    determined by the board to be equal to the employer's  normal
 2    cost  of the benefits accrued for that military service, plus
 3    (iii) interest on items (i) and (ii) from the date  of  first
 4    membership in the Fund to the date of payment, at the rate of
 5    6% per year, compounded annually.
 6        This  subsection  (b-1)  applies  to  persons  who  begin
 7    receiving  a  retirement annuity on or after January 1, 1996.
 8    In the case of an applicant who  is  receiving  a  retirement
 9    annuity  on  the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
10    92nd General Assembly, the increase in annuity resulting from
11    any additional  creditable  service  established  under  this
12    subsection  (b-1)  shall begin to accrue on the first annuity
13    payment  date  following  the  date   of   payment   of   the
14    contribution required under this subsection.
15        (c)  Creditable service also includes service rendered by
16    a  police  officer  while  on  leave of absence from a police
17    department to serve as an executive of an organization  whose
18    membership  consists  of  members  of  a  police  department,
19    subject  to the following conditions:  (i) the police officer
20    is a participant of a fund  established  under  this  Article
21    with  at  least 10 years of service as a police officer; (ii)
22    the police officer received no credit for such service  under
23    any  other  retirement  system,  pension fund, or annuity and
24    benefit fund included in this Code;  (iii)  pursuant  to  the
25    rules  of  the  board the police officer pays to the fund the
26    amount he or she would have contributed had the officer  been
27    an  active  member  of  the  police  department; and (iv) the
28    organization pays a contribution equal to the  municipality's
29    normal cost for that period of service.
30          (d)(1)  Creditable  service  also  includes  periods of
31        service originally established in another police  pension
32        fund  under this Article or in the Fund established under
33        Article 7 of this Code for which  (i)  the  contributions
34        have  been  transferred  under Section 3-110.7 or Section
 
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 1        7-139.9 and (ii)  any  additional  contribution  required
 2        under  paragraph  (2) of this subsection has been paid in
 3        full  in  accordance  with  the  requirements   of   this
 4        subsection (d).
 5             (2)  If  the  board  of  the  pension  fund to which
 6        creditable  service   and   related   contributions   are
 7        transferred  under  Section 3-110.7 or 7-139.9 determines
 8        that the amount transferred is less than the true cost to
 9        the pension fund of allowing that creditable  service  to
10        be   established,   then   in  order  to  establish  that
11        creditable service the police officer  must  pay  to  the
12        pension  fund,  within  the  payment  period specified in
13        paragraph  (3)  of   this   subsection,   an   additional
14        contribution  equal  to  the difference, as determined by
15        the board in accordance with  the  rules  and  procedures
16        adopted under paragraph (6) of this subsection.
17             (3)  Except   as  provided  in  paragraph  (4),  the
18        additional contribution must be paid  to  the  board  (i)
19        within   5  years  from  the  date  of  the  transfer  of
20        contributions under Section 3-110.7 or 7-139.9  and  (ii)
21        before  the  police  officer  terminates service with the
22        fund.  The additional contribution may be paid in a  lump
23        sum  or  in  accordance  with  a  schedule of installment
24        payments authorized by the board.
25             (4)  If the police officer dies  in  service  before
26        payment  in  full has been made and before the expiration
27        of the 5-year payment period, the surviving spouse of the
28        officer may  elect  to  pay  the  unpaid  amount  on  the
29        officer's behalf within 6 months after the date of death,
30        in  which case the creditable service shall be granted as
31        though the deceased police officer had paid the remaining
32        balance on the day before the date of death.
33             (5)  If the additional contribution is not  paid  in
34        full  within  the  required  time, the creditable service
 
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 1        shall not be granted  and  the  police  officer  (or  the
 2        officer's  surviving  spouse or estate) shall be entitled
 3        to receive a refund of (i) any  partial  payment  of  the
 4        additional  contribution that has been made by the police
 5        officer  and  (ii)  those   portions   of   the   amounts
 6        transferred  under  subdivision (a)(1) of Section 3-110.7
 7        or subdivisions (a)(1) and (a)(3) of Section 7-139.9 that
 8        represent  employee  contributions  paid  by  the  police
 9        officer  (but  not  the  accumulated  interest  on  those
10        contributions) and interest paid by the police officer to
11        the prior pension fund  in  order  to  reinstate  service
12        terminated by acceptance of a refund.
13             At  the time of paying a refund under this item (5),
14        the pension fund shall also repay  to  the  pension  fund
15        from  which  the  contributions  were  transferred  under
16        Section   3-110.7   or   7-139.9  the  amount  originally
17        transferred under subdivision  (a)(2)  of  that  Section,
18        plus  interest  at  the  rate  of 6% per year, compounded
19        annually, from the date of the original transfer  to  the
20        date  of repayment.  Amounts repaid to the Article 7 fund
21        under this provision shall be credited to the appropriate
22        municipality.
23             Transferred  credit  that  is  not  granted  due  to
24        failure to pay the  additional  contribution  within  the
25        required  time  is  lost;  it  may  not be transferred to
26        another pension fund and may not  be  reinstated  in  the
27        pension fund from which it was transferred.
28             (6)  The  Public  Employee  Pension Fund Division of
29        the Department of Insurance shall establish by  rule  the
30        manner of making the calculation required under paragraph
31        (2)   of   this   subsection,  taking  into  account  the
32        appropriate actuarial assumptions; the  police  officer's
33        service, age, and salary history; the level of funding of
34        the   pension   fund  to  which  the  credits  are  being
 
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 1        transferred; and any  other  factors  that  the  Division
 2        determines  to  be  relevant.  The rules may require that
 3        all calculations made under paragraph (2) be reported  to
 4        the  Division  by  the  board performing the calculation,
 5        together with documentation of the creditable service  to
 6        be transferred, the amounts of contributions and interest
 7        to  be  transferred,  the manner in which the calculation
 8        was performed, the numbers  relied  upon  in  making  the
 9        calculation,  the  results  of  the  calculation, and any
10        other information the Division may deem useful.
11    (Source: P.A. 90-460,  eff.  8-17-97;  91-887,  eff.  7-6-00;
12    91-939, eff. 2-1-01.)

13        Section  90.  The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
14    Section 8.26 as follows:

15        (30 ILCS 805/8.26 new)
16        Sec. 8.26. Exempt mandate.   Notwithstanding  Sections  6
17    and  8 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required
18    for  the  implementation  of  any  mandate  created  by  this
19    amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly.

20        Section 99. Effective date.  This Act takes  effect  upon
21    becoming law.

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